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there in this present year; if so, the said grounds are hereby cheerfully granted to said 

 State Agricultural Society for said use. 



J. W. BARRY, 

 Secretary of Jackson Co. Agricultural Society. 

 Accepted. 



Mr. Sharp offered a resolution, which was ou motion laid on the table 

 until after dinner. 

 The Committee then took a recess until 2 o'clock. 



AFTERNOOi?" SESSION. 



The Executive Committee resumed its session at 2 o'clock P. M. 



Upon motion, Mr. Sharp's resolution was taken from the table and read 

 as follows : 



Resolved, That the annual Fair of this Society for the year 1887 be and the same is 

 hereby located at .Jackson, on the Jackson County Fair Grounds, provided responsible 

 parties at Jackson shall enter into contract vpith the Business Commitee, guaranteeing 

 to the Society all the rights, privileges and immunities agreed to be given to the Society 

 for the Fair of 1886, under the contract made by and between a committee of citizens 

 of Jackson of the one part and this Society of the other part; and in addition providing 

 , for the continued ovrnership by the Society of its property of every kind put on said 

 Jackson grounds outside of the provisions of said contract in 1886 and in 1887, with the 

 right to remove the same, and also that the roofs of the buildings and sheds on said 

 Fair grounds shall be put in good repair and condition, suitable for the purposes for 

 which the several buildings are to be used, on or before August 1, 1887, to the satisfac- 

 tion and acceptance of the Business Committee, and in default thereof, that the Busi- 

 ness Committee put the same in such condition and repair, the cost of the same to be 

 paid by said citizens' committee of Jackson. 



Adopted by the following vote: 



Yeas — Messrs. Hanford, Ball, Lessiter, Cobb, Sharp, Hyde, Reed, Bur- 

 rington, Wood, Turner, Shoemaker, J. P., Angel, Howard, Young, Butter- 

 field, Anderson, Wells, Baxter, Phillips, President Chamberlain, Treasurer 

 Dean and Secretary Sterling — 22. 



JV^ays — None. 



'On motion the Secretary was instructed to send a copy of the resolution to 

 M. H. Ray, Esq., President of the Jackson County Fair. 



Mr. Baxter offered the following, which was adopted by the following vote: 



Yeas — Messrs. Hanford, Ball, Lessiter, Cobb, Sharp, Hyde, Reed, Bur- 

 rington. Wood, Turner, Shoemaker, J. P., Angel, Howard, Young, Butter- 

 field, Anderson, Baxter, Phillips, President Chamberlain, Treasurer Dean 

 and Secretary Sterling — 21. 



Nays — None. 



Whereas, This Committee has learned with sincere regret that Prof. T. C. Abbot 

 for twenty-seven years connected with our Agricultural College, for twenty-two of 

 them as President, and now a Professor, is in miserable health, rendering the active 

 performance of his duties at the College exceedingly painful and difficult. 



Resolved, That in consideration of his long, efficient and valuable services to the Col- 

 lege and the State, and of the present condition of his health, this Committee deem it 

 proper and appropriate to suggest to the State Board of Agriculture that it would be no 



